Gregg Brandon Leaves Wyoming For New Mexico State

In a move that has seemingly came from nowhere, Wyoming offensive coordinator Gregg Brandon has left the program to take the same position at New Mexico State. This was announced earlier today on the official University of New Mexico State website.

This move seems very odd but I am guessing that for whatever reason it has been in the works for some time now. Moves like this are not made until after letter of intent day (rightly or wrongly) to minimize the impact such moves have on recruiting classes. The question is, what caused this? Brandon being removed at QB’s coach? Maybe a difference of opinion on the future of the offense between Brandon and Christensen? Who knows but I find the latter possibility less likely considering Christensen learned the spread offense from Brandon.

We will see how Christensen fills the offensive coordinator position. It is a very important hire considering we have a very talented and productive quarterback when healthy in Brett Smith. We need the new OC to hit the ground running as Smith will be a junior this coming fall. With that in mind my best guess is Christensen will name himself offensive coordinator and hire another coach to oversee the RB’s or WR’s.

5 Comments

Aaron Wilhelm on February 8, 2013 at 12:18 pm

well shit

James Purdy on February 8, 2013 at 12:18 pm

huge coup for NMSU. I graduated from both schools, but bleed brown n gold so not even I am happy about it.

Eric Buke on February 8, 2013 at 12:40 pm

good luck with that garbage.

Jared Stanek on February 8, 2013 at 12:46 pm

How do we lose our OC to a school that doesn’t even have a conference?!

Frank Payton on February 8, 2013 at 1:05 pm

I really wasn’t all that happy with our offense last season…. very anemic for a good part of the season… might be a good thing if we really want to turn this around… of course, we now have to fill the position with someone who will turn this offense into a scoring machine.